Anthropology

Anger over ‘concretization’ of 12,000-year-old site Göbeklitepe in Turkey Hurriyet Daily News Experts are warning about careless works around the ancient site of Göbeklitepe, considered the world’s oldest temple area,... Read more

Humanity’s Surprising Variety of Approaches to Toilet Training SAPIENS by Alma Gottlieb [no-caption] David D/Flickr This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Are 2-year-olds too young to... Read more

How Ursula Le Guin’s Writing Was Shaped by Anthropology SAPIENS by Philip W. Scher In creating other worlds, Ursula Le Guin showed the power inherent in constructions of culture and new realities.Marian... Read more

Anthropology’s Top Findings of 2017 SAPIENS by Aaron Brooks “Fossil scout” Pedro Boshoff inside the Rising Star cave system in South Africa, where Homo naledi fossils were found. Wits University This year’s anthropological findings... Read more

Learning to Trust Machines That Learn SAPIENS by Matthew Gwynfryn Thomas and Djuke Veldhuis Imagine lying on a hospital bed. Doctors with grave expressions hover. One leans down to tell you that... Read more

Iceland’s Forgotten Fisherwomen SAPIENS by Roberta Kwok Fisherwomen have played a significant role in Iceland’s history, and yet their contribution has been, for the most part, overlooked. Michelle Jones/SAPIENS Explaining Ethnography in the Field:... Read more

Great anthropologists who fought fascism Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology Some of you who — unlike me — have not had family members murdered by nazis or had every synagogue in their... Read more

Perspectives: An Open Access Intro Anthro Textbook Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology (This guest post by Nina Brown, Thomas McIlwraith, and Laura Tubelle de González announces the launch of what I believe... Read more

Hacker and Drone Training as Ethnographic Fieldwork Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Adam Fish Recently, I enrolled in two multi-day training workshops in the United... Read more

Oldest Known Homo Sapiens Fossils Found SAPIENS by Nicola Jones At the site of an old Moroccan mine, paleoanthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin points to one of the oldest Homo sapiens skulls yet... Read more

Argonauts of the Internet: Anthropology and Community Management – What’s anthropology good for? A lot, actually. blog.reddit — what’s new on reddit by Staff Christine Moellenberndt Anthropologist / Community Manager This... Read more